Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Obesity
in human beings could be caused by bacterial infection rather than
eating too much, exercising too little or genetics, according to a groundbreaking study that could have profound implications for public health systems, the pharmaceutical industry and food manufacturers.

The discovery in China followed an eight-year search by scientists
across the world to explain the link between gut bacteria and obesity.

Researchers
in Shanghai identified a human bacteria linked with obesity, fed it to
mice and compared their weight gain with rodents without the bacteria.
The latter did not become obese despite being fed a high-fat diet and
being prevented from exercising.

The bacterium – known as enterobacter – encourages the body to make
and store fat, and prevents it from being used, by deregulating the
body’s metabolism-controlling genes. More here:

The
Shanghai team fed a morbidly obese man a special diet designed to
inhibit the bacterium linked to obesity and found that he lost 29 per
cent of his body weight in 23 weeks. The patient was prevented from
doing any exercise during the trial.

Prof Zhao said such a loss in an obese patient using this diet was
unprecedented. The patient also recovered from diabetes, high blood
pressure and fatty liver disease.

The diet of whole grains, traditional Chinese medicines and
non-digestible carbohydrates changed the pH in the gut which limited the
bacterium’s activity.

I tried finding the "diet" online but have been unsuccessful so far ... but something tells me I need to kill my enterobactor (keel mah landlo) KILL MAH ENTEROBACTER!!!